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    "pk": 25847,
    "title": "Statistical Word Learning is a Continuous Process: Evidence from the Human\nSimulation Paradigm",
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    "abstract": "In the word-learning domain, both adults and young children\nare able to find the correct referent of a word from highly\nambiguous contexts that involve many words and objects by\ncomputing distributional statistics across the co-occurrences\nof words and referents at multiple naming moments (Yu &\nSmith, 2007; Smith & Yu, 2008). However, there is still\ndebate regarding how learners accumulate distributional\ninformation to learn object labels in natural learning\nenvironments, and what underlying learning mechanism\nlearners are most likely to adopt. Using the Human\nSimulation Paradigm (Gillette, Gleitman, Gleitman &\nLederer, 1999), we found that participants’ learning\nperformance gradually improved and that their ability to\nremember and carry over partial knowledge from past\nlearning instances facilitated subsequent learning. These\nresults support the statistical learning model that word\nlearning is a continuous process.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "statistical learning; word-referent mapping;\nlearning mechanisms"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yayun",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Indiana University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yurovsky",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Chen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Indiana University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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